Emilie Louise Gossiaux
Born 1989 in New Orleans, LA
Currently based in New York City
Contact
gossiaux.studio@gmail.com
Education
2019 MFA, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2014 BFA, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Dogs Who Run in Dreams, David Peter Francis Gallery, New York, NY
2025 Votives, CASTLE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Kinship, Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim, NOR
2024 Nature from Bed, Wave Hill House, The Bronx, NY
2023 Other-Worlding, Queens Museum, New York, NY
2022 Significant Otherness, Mother Gallery, New York, NY
2020 Memory of a Body, Curated by Emily Watlington, Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY
2018 After Image, False Flag Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Seeing with Ten Fingers, Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan, KOR
2024 Myth of Normal, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, DEU
2024 Object Sensations, curated by Amanda Cachia, Tangled Art Gallery, Toronto, CAN
2024 Animal Watch, 125 Newbury Gallery, New York, NY
2023 Channeling, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, DEU
2023 Don’t Mind If I Do, curated by Finnegan Shannon, MoCa Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
2023 Sharing the Same Breath, The John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
2022 In Plain Sight, The Wellcome Collection, London, GBR
2022 8th Contemporary Art Biennale, Organized by the Once Foundation, CentroCentroCibeles, Madrid, ESP
2022 Pure Joy, Curated by Chella Man, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY
2022 52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2021 Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
2021 Crip*, Curated by Liza Sylvester, Krannert Art Museum, Champagne, IL
2021 Crip Time, Curated by Susanne Pfeffer and Anna Sailer, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, DEU
2021 Open Call, The Shed, New York, NY
2020 Total Disbelief, curated by Kyle Dancewicz, SculptureCenter, New York, NY
2019 Too Full To Cry, Shin Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Access+Ability, Cooper Hewitt, New York, NY
2013 In/finite Earth, The Smithsonian Institute’s S. Dillon Ripley Center, Washington, DC
2011 Curiouser, Curiouser, Recess Art, New York, NY
Awards
2024 The Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship, New York, NY
2024 The Ida Applebroog Grant, New York, NY
2023 The Pébéo Production Prize, New York, NY
2022-2023 Queens Museum Jerome Fellowship for Emerging Artists, New York, NY
2022 BRIC Colene Brown Art Prize, New York, NY
2021 NYFA Barbara and Carl Zydney Grant for Artists with Disabilities, New York, NY
2019 Wynn Newhouse Award, New York, NY
2014 Elliot Lash Memorial Prize, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2013 Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Award of Excellence, Washington DC
Residencies
2022-2023 Queens Museum Jerome Fellowship for Emerging Artists, New York, NY
2021 Wave Hill Winter Workspace, New York, NY
2020 4WTC Silverarts Residency, New York, NY
2018 Dumfries House Artist Residency, Royal Drawing School, Cumnock, Scotland
Selected Bibliography
- Watlington, Emily, A Norwegian Kunsthall Transformed into a Dog’s Pleasure Palace, Art in America, 17 December, 2024.
- Soyer, Hannah, Other-Worlding”: An Interview with Artist Emilie Gossiaux, Rooted in Rights, 21 March, 2024.
- Volk, Gregory, A Maypole Dance for Dogs in Queens, Hyperallergic, 5 March, 2024.
- The Editors of ArtNews, The Defining Artworks of 2023, ArtNews, 18 December, 2023.
- McDermott, Emily, Emilie L. Gossiaux: Freedom of Movement, ArtReview, 6 December, 2023.
- Sheets, Hilarie, Her Guide Dog Inspired Her Art. Now the Lab Stars In A Museum Show, The New York Times, 5 December, 2023.
- Civin, Marcus, Interdependence, Metal Magazine, 26 October, 2023.
- Heinrich, Will, Art Shows and Exhibitions to See this Fall, The New York Times, 4 September, 2023.
- Haigney, Sophie, Our Cover Star, London: An Interview with Emilie Louise Gossiaux, The Paris Review, 31, May, 2023.
- Gossiaux, Emilie L., Love Letter to London, Wordgathering, 6 February, 2023.
- Stadler, Bert, Emilie Louise Gossiaux, Working with a Dreaming Body, Institutional Model, 22 January, 2023.
- Watlington, Emily, Emilie L. Gossiaux, Drawing Beyond Sight, Art In America, 12 October, 2022.
- Leland, Andrew, Ways of Not Seeing, Art in America, 6 October, 2022.
- Packard, Cassie, ArtSeen, The Brooklyn Rail, 1 June, 2022.
- Packard, Cassie, Your Concise New York Art Guide for May 2022, Hyperallergic, 1 May, 2022.
- David Zwirner Gallery, An artist’s profound relationship with her guide dog, Platform Art, November, 2021.
- Andrea K. Scott, Total Disbelief, The New Yorker, 2020.
- Emily Watlington, Observing by Touch, Blind Artist Emilie L. Gossiaux Sculpts Tattoos and Dancing Dogs, Art in America, 2020.
- Jillian Billard, Emilie Gossiaux’s ‘After Image’ at False Flag, Topical Cream, 2018.
- Cooper Hewitt, Access+Ability: BrainPort, Featuring Emilie Gossiaux (with Audio Description), Cooper Hewitt, 2017.
- Lumpkin, Daniel, An Artist: How Technology Helped Emilie Gossiaux Overcome Blindness to Rediscover Her Process, Paste Magazine, 2015.
- Jennifer Smith, Artist Refuses to Let Blindness Derail Her Career, Wall Street Journal, 2016.
- Radiolab, Seeing in Tongues, WNYC Studios, 2014.
- Claire Barliant, An Irrational Feeling, Paper Monument, 2011.
- Radiolab, Finding Emilie, WNYC, 2011.